March 28 D-Day for WCC? Could Close Completely! If / When it is too late - how will you answer the question - what did you do to stop it!

Rider President Dell Omo has been on a whirlwind tour speaking to the faculty departments on the Rider and Westminster campuses - likely his goals are to undermine support for a strong AAUP stance regarding contract negotiations and to sell his Westminster for sale snake oil.

The following is information gleaned from a recent presentation by Dell Omo to a Lawrenceville department faculty group.

• The Dell Omo "study group" proposal will be put before a special meeting of the Rider Board of Trustees on March 28.
• Options being considered INCLUDE THE COMPLETE SHUTTERING of Westminster.  Quoting from transcript: "And at that meeting our plan is to be able to make a recommendation to the full board on one of those scenarios:
  
  
   either one campus, or spin off, or even closure possibly."
• The other two options include consolidation of Westminster onto the Rider Lawrenceville campus and trying to find another institution that can purchase, take over and operate Westminster.
• Keeping Westminster in Princeton per the current two campus model is NOT one of the options
• Improving the financial performance of Westmnster on the Princeton campus is not considered viable.

So D-Day for Westminster about 2 weeks away - on Tuesday March 28.

There has been talk of a lawsuit and 1000's have been collected for such purpose.

Faculty are mobilizing around the contract issues but they were unable to pull consensus together for NO CONFIDENCE at Rider AAUP's March meeting.

LAST 3 YEARS OF RIDER / WESTMINSTER STRIFE

The case for NO CONFIDENCE!

Students seem confused and inactivated on the issue.  Those students that did try to address the issue came under proverbial attack from the administration allied Student Governing Association - which has yet to take any position at all on the issue as a body - aside from an apparent pro-administration letter on the matter sent out during the student winter break.

Rider Students Union is in the fight and are preparing a newspaper printing and distribution and meetings on various campus topics including Westminster.

Westminister is precarious now.

I always believe that people have the ability to prevail when confronted with various forms of oppression.  But as of now - I do not see us making the moves to challenge this with any effectiveness.  There have been little or no protests of late - there are no calls for a march down 206,

When it is too late - how will you answer the question - what did you do to stop it!

WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON???